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Friends gathered outside the bar Tuesday night to remember the man who made friends everywhere he went.

"We never would have imagined that it would have happened here, at a place that we love, and to a person that we love so much," Caitlin Boone said.

Ostrom was stabbed to death Monday night outside of the bar. His friends said he rushed to help another friend who was being harassed by her boyfriend.

"He's very protective of women, and all his friends, no matter who they are," Megan Liddell said.

"There was a scuffle between a couple and he stood up for her because that's what he would do," Boone said.

Ostrom's friends said he loved to cook. He went to the prestigious Le Cordon Bleu culinary school. They said the senseless violence across this city has got to stop.

"It's going on all over and it's so surreal when it happens to someone so close to you," Boone said.

Police said two people, a 45-year-old Oak Creek man and a 20-year-old Greenfield man, were arrested.

The Pfister Hotel released a statement, saying in part, "We are very saddened to learn the news about the incident and the passing of Shawn Ostrom. We have lost one of our respected colleagues and work family members."